Round of warm weather is expected to start the weekend. Highs should remain in the 50s for saturday, but cloud cover will move in during the evening and set up a cooler, cloudy sunday. A few showers are possible overnight saturday into sunday as well, though totals should not amount to much more than a few hundredths of an inch. Next week will continue the again near 50 and plenty of sunshine. A major announcement this afternoon from federal officials. Again near 50 and plenty of sunshine. A major announcement this afternoon from federal officials. The mass shooting in San Bernadino earlier this week is terrorism. The wife of the couple who carried the attacks pledged alligiance to isis on a Facebook Post prior to the attack. Jay gray is in latest. Natural sound we are investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism a stunning discovery in the case this morning, nbc news has learned Tashfeen Malik pledged alligiance to the leader of isis in a Facebook Post just before she and her husband, sayed farook allegedy than twenty durning an attack at the that was jay gray reporting from california. Now to the reaction to the shooting in washington. In the wake of the attacks, us officials might change how they screen muslim refugees. Theyre suddenly worried that women. Even mothers with children. Might be radical islamic terrorists. Steve handelsman has that story. Its the federal investigators terror and revealing that 27 year old shooter tasfeen malik, pledged alliegance to the head of isis. But theres no indication the isis so far no indication these killers are part of organized larger group or part of a cell. No indication they are part of a network. And president obamas spokesman still won t blame the attack on radical islamic terror sot josh earnest, White House Press secretary im not gonna be a position to confirm these reports josh earnest did confirm that getting her us visa to come and marry american citizen, sayed farook, malik faced a less rigorous background check than checks faced by muslim refugees. And earnest confirmed those checks are under review. Because one of wednesdays shooter was a women. Women refugees now. Might get the same tough background checks that male regugees get Hillary Clinton, today sot Hillary Clinton, president ial candidatewere going to have to be really focused on anybody who poses a threat to us no matter how they get here. But republicans are slamming clinton and president obama for their reactions to San Bernardino sot marco rubio, president ial candidate48 hours after this is over theyre still talking about gun control measures as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun control laws are some democratic lawmakers went to a Northern Virginia mosque where muslim fear theyll be attacked sot Imam Johari Abdul malik we know the difference between a nazi and a german and we know terrorist and muslim but the scramble , now, is to find potential terrorists. Before the next San Bernardino audio outcue im steve washington. And despite the campaign whether to call the killers islamic terrorists. Everyone agrees preventing a similar attack will be difficult im steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill well have more on the political reaction to the massacre later in the newscast. Well hear what both rand paul and Chris Christie had to say as they brought their campaigns to the metro today. A car slammed into a house this morning on the east side. And neighbors say they arent surprised it happened. Police say this truck was exiting i 235 at southeast 15th street when the driver steered off the road. Hit a light post. Then crashed through a fence and into a home on lyon street. Same thing happened just a few months ago. And the homeowner has asked city leaders for help. 331341 she tried to talk to the city. Too close for comfort. People got kids. The driver of the truck was taken from the scene by ambulance. Theres no word on what caused the driver to leave the road. The next time you go to an iowa energy game, expect increased security at the gate. The team and Wells Fargo Arena announced the new measures today. All spectators will be screened with wands at every home game. Fans will be asked to remove all itmes from their pockets. And large bags and backpacks wont be allowed. These are the same security measures used by every nba arena. Fans are being asked to bring only necessary items into the arena to help speed up screening. Right now the eyes of all iowa sports fans are focused on indianapolis. This is another live look at the hawkeye pep rally going on right now. One day thousands of hawkeye fans are in indianapolis. Tomorrow thousands more could pack the bars along court avenue to watch on tv. Police are planning an increased presence. And bar owners are expecting big crowds. 224006 temperatures do make a difference, weather does make a difference and with it being nice weather we should have a good strong crowd out here matt funk manages the Court Center Building which houses several bars and restaurants. He hired two des moines officers to provide extra security after a Fatal Shooting along court last weekend. Hes also installed more lights around the building and plans to install security cameras. The Organization Operation downtown is also lending a hand. It is providing funding for six additional officers operation downtowns extra patrol will last through tomorrow night. Uniformed officers will be patrolling the area from 11 30 saturday night to 2 30 sunday morning. Chocolate, get ready for a new creation from exile brewing company. The local brew experts joined forces with Chocolaterie Stam a local chocolate shop, to create a mochainfused beer for the holiday season. Sir mochalot has hints of chocolate and coffee in it, but the brewery calls it a balanced dark stout. It hits local stores shelves today. The guys who brewed it say this beer is definitely Something Different compared to previous creations. Id say that the big thing is the addition of the chocolate. You know, obviously, you dont add that to every beer, so the fact that we were able to add that cocoa powder we used about 150 pounds for this beer. So, that, coupled with the coffee malt, really came out nice in the end, where it had that kind of dark chocolate flavor, and then as well as that roasted coffee. 01 25 you can try sir mochalot out anywhere in town where exile brews are normally sold. Or give it a try at exile brewing company. Its on tap. Were three weeks away from christmas. But it feels like were closer to spring break right now. But the lack of snow is stopping the holiday cheer. Coming up next. Well show you where you can take a trip back in time to christmas past this weekend in iowa. And a little later. He jumped off the shelf into real life. Now hes competing to be the king of christmas. Well check in with the real life elf of the shelf we introduced you to last christmas. The weather isnt very seasonal. But Everything Else looks a lot like well check in with the real life elf of the shelf we introduced you to last christmas. The weather isnt very seasonal christmas right now. Its the first weekend in december. That means its time for albias big annual celebration. 32 42 albia victorian stroll is in its 27th year to emphasize and show off our the victorian stroll includes 44 live displays in albias downtown businesses saturday night. The events kickoff tonight with the lighting of rudolphs nose. Tomorrow morning a large indoor model rail display will take over the inside of the Iowa State Bank building. The whole event showcasess the towns Historic Downtown square. 1850s is when the buildings were built. So we have a great history show. Explaining all that tomorrow. The clothing you see me in, well have hundreds of people in authentic vintage clothing threat the event. Tonight the town gathers for a Community Supper from five to seven before santa arrives at 7 pm. Another big annual Christmas Display is now open in west des moines. Three to four hundred nativity scenes are filling Valley United Methodist Church right now. Its called no room at the inn. Church members spent around four and half days setting up the admission to the event is a free will offering which goes to benefit habitat for humanity. our members of our congregation,lend them to us for the weekend, and we get them from friends of our congregation, said fran watson, who leads the event for the church. as word gets out of what we do, people bring them in to show off their beautiful nativities. no room at the inn is open until five pm both saturday and sunday. This is the 12th year the church has sponsored this display. The city of waukees annual Holiday Celebration begins in just a few minutes. Winterfest runs from 4 30 to 6 30 tonight in the downtown triangle district. Santa claus arrives tonight at its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows to the top 1 . Its a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. My campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you who want to fight back. The truth is you cant change a corrupt system by taking its money. Im bernie sanders. I approve this message. Round of warm weather is expected to start the weekend. Highs should remain in the 5 for saturday, but cloud cover will move in during the evening and set up a cooler, cloudy sunday. A few showers are possible overnight saturday into sunday as well, though totals should not amount to much more next week will continue the pleasant weather pattern with highs again near 50 and plenty of sunshine. Coming up next. Well check in again with one of our favorite christmas coming up next. Well check in again with one of our coming up next. Well check in again with one of our favorite christmas characters, the chicago man whos turned into a real life and on your television. Tommy holls real elf persona started a few years ago when a friend mentioned how much he looked like the elf on the shelf character. Hes done some appearances, some parties. But now its going to another level as hes getting a chance to truly show his stuff. When we first introduced you to tommy holl last year. He was spreading cheer all over michigan avenue. Nats where are you coming from . We live in indiana, oh i already knew that i just wanted to check but just a the life of the real elf began to change. Tommy was contacted and chosen to take part in a brand new reality show. Nats 12. 31. 00. 16 our little elf from michigan ave. Isnt this crazy i know. Im 53 in a red onsie. Who knew knew. santas in the barn on true tv. Ten jolly folk from all over the us competing for top prizes. 12. 31. 43 santa i havent seen you since christmas my name is tommy. Im the real elf. 1. 19 theyre trying to find someone who has the ultimate Christmas Spirit. 1. 08 its a crazy christmas competition so were milk chugging, were climbing chimneys, were making toys were basically living the santa way. For one month. Tommy and his fellow cheery challengers faced competition at christmas camp. The winner walking away with 100thousand dollars. Money to donate to their favorite charity. And the title americas best santa. Of course these competitors are working to become the real santas right hand man or woman. 4. 09 we have a surfing santa. The real black santa from atlanta. 5. 53 santa steve doesnt have have a beard so you really get to see theres a diverse range of Christmas Spirit and just being jolly during the holidays. There isnt a cookie cutter image to how you can celebrate the holidays. Santa steve. And santa joy. The other two locals taking part in the competition. 12. 30. 30. 15 watch me watch my hands. Ho ho ho. Joy gatz is from oswego. Firefighter Santa Steve Brandt is from palatine. 12. 53. 21 can he still scale a chimney like he used to . 4. 37 did you get to meet the real santa. Well theres. Youll just have to wait and see. There are a lot of secrets tommy cant spill just yet. So i wanted to see his challenge skills. 17. 04 i think we should do a milk jugging competition. Do you think you have what it takes. I dont drink milk but i will do water. 19. 28 ready set elf. 19. 33 regular speed brain freeze 19. 48 slurps, burps laughs. If thats any indication. We on our hands. Tommy says regardless the outcome, hes already won. 9. 51 this whole experience has brought new experiences into my life. New friends into my life. And really i just dont know. Im so grateful. 5. 20 its so exciting to see where its gone and every year it just snowballing. 12. 32. 03 im just going to keep doing it even if im 87 years old in a onsie. Santas in the barn airs on trutv every wednesday and thursday through christmas. Tomorrow night theres only one thing that needs to be on your the iowa hawkeyes are going for a perfect 13andoh. Coming up. Well take you in with fans big ten title game. And its huge news for donald him his biggest leader ever in the and sounding off about San Bernadino and president obama. President is to blame. And why our dave price is challenging him to a drinking game. Theres a new challenger to santas sled team. We have the story behind this flying deer thats become a viral sensation. And our countdown to kickoff continues. Well take you live to indianapolis and the big ten title game preparty. News at four front door donald trump loves to brag about his poll numbers. He may doing backflips over the results of the latest National Republican poll. Six weeks ago a cnn poll showed trumps lead in the gop race was down to just five points. Today a new poll gives him the biggest lead he or any candidate has seen this year. The cnn poll shows trump is the favorite amongst 36percent of republican voters. He has a in second place. Ben carson slips to third. Followed by marco rubio. From that top four there is a sheer dropoff to the next tier. Chris christie is in fifth place at four percent. Hes followed by jeb bush and Carly Fiorina in sixth. John kasich and Mike Huckabee in eighth. Rand paul finished 9th in that national poll. But hes polling better here in iowa. This morning he sat down with our dave price at who radio. They started their hour long conversation by talking about the mass shooting in San Bernadino. And how congress should respond to levels. 14431515 to me when these tragedies happen. There were people there praying to be rescued. We sometimes lose sight of the human element. Second amendment, war on terror. Think about the people who were actually killed. 16041707 our intial response was our thoughts and prayer. New York Daily News put it on the front page. You need to fix this. Most significant gun control in america. Ourselves we need to do some investigation. This gentlemen was radicalized. All for looking at their records. You just have to get a warrant with their name on it and say you have suspicion. As we said, dave and rand paultalked for a full hour that seemed to be on the tip of the whole time. 18161820 its a sharp demarcation between myself and marco rubio who i think consistently not defended the border. 18311901 in Foreign Policy i think Hillary Clinton and marco rubio. Institute a prodemocracy. More at risk because of the clintonrubio Foreign Policy. 19161939 i think its reckless. Marco rubios neoconservative roots. Topple assad in syria. Youll wind up with isis in charge 34453454 if we were playing the marco rubio drinking game id be passed out by now. Its too early for that. Dave was filling in today as a guest host for Jan Mickelson recovering at home after suffering a stroke before thanksgiving. Chris christie was in the metro today, as well. He, too, was focused on the San Bernadino attack. The new jersey governor told a crowd at a meeting of iowa electrical cooperatives that the massacre in california and the paris attacks last month can both be blamed on failed intelligence. Both in america and overseas. 53405405 up until the last threat had passed. Demean and demoralize our intelligence officers. Somehow remain safe. Edit to 54385517 now we have savn bernadino president still wont say its a terrorist attack. I can tell you when reports came in. Man and his wife dressed in tactical gear. Lets get the tactical gear. Its ridiculous to think thats what happened. At this hour Hillary Clinton is addressing a crowd in fort well hear from her later tonight. As well as from texas senator ted cruz who held a Second Amendment rally in johnston earlier this afternoon. Temperatures climbed into the 50s in des moines on friday, and another round of warm weather is expected to start the weekend. Highs should remain in the 50s for saturday, but cloud cover will move in during the evening and set up a cooler, cloudy sunday. A few showers are possible overnight saturday into sunday as well, though totals than a few hundredths of an inch. Next week will continue the pleasant weather pattern with highs again near 50 and plenty of sunshine. A Small Police Department in they posted dash cam video of a deer hitting a Police Cruiser and flying into the air before running off. The incredible video has captured the attention of millions all over the world. Joe webb reports officer Chris Pittaluga is on routine patrol for the Kenton County was on routine patrol sunday afternoon when an 8point buck jaywalked across Decoursey Pike in visalia. His cruiser cam video caught the acrobatic collision and after it Facebook Page it took off. I figured it would get some attention around Northern Kentucky but i never thought wed get two million likes and all the News Networks all over north american and europe carrying it. Pittaluga was not injured. His cruiser suffered minor damage. The buck got up and eluded police. My sergeant came down to do the report and we went and looked in the tree line to see if we could find him and we couldnt find him anywhere so we assume hes off frolicking example for anyone who hits a deer. Slow down and maintain control even if the deer is doing a triple lutz. Officer pittaluga has hit in 9 years on duty and this is the second time hes hit a deer on the job. He says he sees deer every day and sees accidents with deer almost every day. So does body man ron kirn. His p and r auto repair is filled with cars smashed by deer who leave behind some furry reminders. As we were looking at a car totaled by a deer collision, carol koch wheeled up to get an estimate. She was turned away by another shop. That theyre having 3 or 4 calls a day about deer and the guy said, take it some place else. I cant work on it until january. By then mating season will have passed and flying deer will only be seen on christmas eve. And Chris Pittaluga can get back to routine patrol. The Facebook Post has 2point3 temperatures climbed into the 50s in des moines on friday, and another round of warm weather is expected to start the weekend. Highs should remain in the 50s for saturday, but cloud cover will move in during the evening and set up a cooler, cloudy sunday. A few showers are possible overnight saturday into sunday as well, though totals should not amount to much more than a few hundredths of an inch. Next week will continue the pleasant weather pattern with highs again near 50 and plenty of sunshine. Temperatures climbed into the jeb bush heres the truth you will not hear from our president we are at war with radical islamic terrorism. The fate of the free world. The United States should not delay in leading a Global Coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. Their aim is our total destruction. We cant withdraw from this threat or negotiate with it. We have but one choice to defeat it. Vo right to rise usa is responsible round of warm weather is expected to start the weekend. Highs should remain in the 50s for saturday, but cloud cover will move in during the evening and set up a cooler, cloudy sunday. A few showers are possible overnight saturday into sunday as well, though totals should not amount to much more than a few hundredths of an inch. Next week will continue the pleasant weather pattern with highs again near 50 and plenty of sunshine. Its been 12 up and 12 down for the iowa hawkeyes so far this its been 12 up and 12 down for the iowa hawkeyes so far this season. Tomorrow night they go for lucky pleasant weather pattern with highs again nea if youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, youre not alone. While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income my plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. Im bernie sanders. I approve this message because together, we can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all tomorrow night they go for lucky win number 13 in the big ten title game. Today the hawkeyes went through their final preparations before tomorrows at this hour the fans are beginning their tailgating at a hawkeye pep rally. Our michael admire joins us live from the party. Roll to vo all here for the big displeasure what led investigators to confirm this was an act of terrorism. Hawkeye fans are shoring up their plans on where to watch the big ten championship game tomorrow night. Hundreds will end up here. On court avenue. Well tell you what des moines is doing to make people feel safe. In light of a deadly shooting in the Entertainment District earlier this week. 2 19 31 252 19 34 20 he loves his legs, he loves being a cat that can walk and run. At first glance, it doesnt seem possible. And in fact, just a couple dozen animals in the world have undergone the procedure performed on this cat. State veterinarians helped him walk again. The fbi today declared the mass shooting in San Bernardino, california an act of terrorism. Good evening. And thank you for joining us. Im dan winters. And im sonya heitshusen. Investigators say the woman who helped assisted her huand in the terrorist attack pledged allegiance to isis on facebook prior to the attack. They also discovered a bomb making lab in the couples home. Jinah kim has the latest. Just two days after the mass shooting that took the lives of fourteen people, investigators are zeroing in on the couples motivation behind the attack. We are investigating this act as an act of terrorism. Federal Officials SayTashfeen Malik, the female suspect pledged her allegiance to isis on social media. Malik allegedly made the under a different name, then